On March 4 2011 the Food and Drug Administration released a recall of several brand names of hazelnuts and mixed nuts manufactured by Defranco & Sons out of Los Angeles. To date there have been seven known cases of e coli outbreaks in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin due to the consumption of these nuts.
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On January 20, 2010, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the Graco Children’s Products, Inc., announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using the recalled products immediately until the remedy is provided, which is a free protective cover repair kit.
Name of Product: Graco’s Passage™, Alano™, and Spree™ [...]
For ATRF to suggest we are a hellhole simply because we have judges that follow the law rather than cater to special interests reveals a great deal about ATRF.
Tort reform is not the answer. It will not lower health insurance rates. It will not lower health care costs. It will not reduce doctors’ premiums. Rather, it will penalize the most critically injured patients. Furthermore, it will reduce the pressure on medical professionals to avoid careless medical errors.
The focus should be on reducing the [...]
In closing, statistics DO NOT support tort reform. Tort reformers fail to see that medical malpractice reform will not saves lives.
Minneapolis came in as the safest city on the Forbes.com top 10 list. Forbes.com looked at the 40 largest metropolitan areas and used 2008 statistics from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a number of different government agencies in determining the rankings. Minneapolis was in the top 10 in all [...]
Liebeck v. McDonald’s, “The McDonald’s Coffee Case”, has been widely misreported and misunderstood. The jury’s award was for $200,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million for punitive damages (equal to only 2 days of McDonald’s coffee sales). Punitive damages were allowed because McDonalds’ conduct was deemed reckless, callous, and willful.
Stella Liebeck was found 20% [...]
Tinnitus is the presence of sound in the head when no external sound is present.
